Mordechai Ish-Shalom

Mordechai Ish-Shalom
Mayor of Jerusalem
In office
1959–1965
Preceded by Gershon Agron
Succeeded by Teddy Kollek
Personal details
Born (1902-01-02)2 January 1902
Lithuania
Died 21 February 1991(1991-02-21) (aged 89)
Jerusalem, Israel
Political party Mapai
Religion Jewish

Mordechai Ish-Shalom (Hebrew: מרדכי איש-שלום), (1902–1991), was an Israeli politician and labor leader. He was mayor of Jerusalem from 1959 to 1965.

Biography

Ish-Shalom was born in Lithuania and moved to British Palestine in 1923. His labor career began in the Stonecutters' Union in 1935; he then rose through the ranks of the Histadrut, the Israeli trade union congress.

Ish-Shalom was instrumental in the successful development of Kiryat Wolfson, a five-tower high-rise project constructed in Jerusalem in the 1970s.[1]

Ish-Shalom died at the age of 90.[2] The cause of death was not released.[3]

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